美國 冷戰結束
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1909年五月5日～
1987年四月18日)
美國傳記作傢，新澤西州普林斯頓大學的文學教授和法學博士。他是第一個全面研究海明威及其著作的權威人士。一九五二年，他寫了一本關於海明威的書《象藝術傢那樣進行創作的人》。卡羅斯貝剋自一九六一年至一九六八年，整整花了八年時間纔寫完《海明威傳》。作者進行了廣泛、深入調查，獲取第一手資料，並充分利用書信、回憶材料、傳記文獻和文學研究及評論，敘述了海明威的生平和創作。在敘述作傢的生平和創作的同時，作者還介紹了海明威的傢人、朋友以及同他有過交往的人；介紹了海明威的主要作品産生的時代背景，寫作過程以及當時社會對這些作品的反應。本書材料豐富而翔實，描述別開生面，饒有情趣。它不僅能幫助一般讀者瞭解海明威的生活經歷和創作上的成功經驗，對於深入探討和研究海明威其人以及他的創作思想和藝術也有一定的參考價值。
Carlos Baker (May 5, 1909, Biddeford, Maine – April 18, 1987, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American writer, biographer and former Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton respectively. Baker's published works included several novels and books of poetry and various literary criticisms and essays. In 1969 he published a highly-acclaimed scholarly biography of Ernest Hemingway. His other major works included a biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Baker taught biographer A. Scott Berg while Berg was an undergraduate at Princeton in the late 1960s. Berg recalled that Baker "changed my life," and convinced him to quit acting to concentrate on his thesis, a study of editor Maxwell Perkins. Berg eventually expanded his thesis into the National Book Award-winning biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), which he dedicated in part to Baker.
